Abstract The remote seusing technique in petroluem exploration department has been made great progress not only in image processing geological application but also in fundamen tal reseanch in recent 10 years. These examples of this kind of application show that remote sensing technique can play an impartant role in oil-gas survey and target evaluti on, in which it combines geophysical data geochemical data and other materials, also it can make use of the remote smsing features of known oil-gas field to analogize and analysis the study areas, then forcast and enlarge the oil-gas range.